Sometimes design mistakes are so dumb that, if you’re conspiracy-minded, you wonder if they were made on purpose. Here’s an example. HTC, makers of the One Max smartphone, decided to leave users’ fingerprints in a world-readable,…

Two students in the Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences (CaMS) at Lewis University participated in the University’s Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) this summer. Betsy Langland and Michael Korzon, both of Downers Grove, presented…

The Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences (CaMS) participated in Joliet’s eleventh annual Kidzfest on Saturday, August 1. The event, which gives kids a chance to learn and have fun at the same time, was…

An article in The Washington Post today presented some scary but unsurprising news about recent advances in hacking into automobiles to take control of them remotely. From several miles away, an attacker could break into the…

Here’s a really interesting report on the traffic accidents and other incidents Google’s self-driving car has experienced in one million miles of driving. Thirteen accidents have been reported, but none of them appear to be the…

The future of computing centers on the operating system. So does its past. That is the message of an interesting article featured on Gizmodo today. The operating system of a computing device is the software…